Nah, Tarballs are delicious!

Compiling is only needed to solve dependencies when you get caught in rpm hell.

And if you insist on being unattractive, then have you tried being rich?

Yep. When buying a product, it ain’t about the packaging, color of the paint, or the sticker/badge hung on it. It’s all about the service when things go sideways. And at some point something will go wrong, it always does. That’s when you learn just how good or bad a company is.

As a boomer, reading this thread/discussion has been so amusing in many ways while enjoying my cuppa tea this morning. A classic “the younger generations are stupid.”

The older generations looking down the ones that follow. And the following generations looking down on those that precede them. And no one understanding ain’t none of us are all that bright.

Ever has it been, and so ever shall it be.

Breaking things is a valid way to start learning. Reading man pages is very often difficult and confusing for new users. And much of the documentation is crap anyway-- it’s why distro forums exist. And I’m from a time when distro upgrades/updates were sometimes dicey, (they still can break things on occasions), and you complied your kernel and drivers from scratch.

Which businesses? Foreign companies or local ones? Do you wish to have your money shipped overseas to purchase a vacuum cleaner? Or would you rather pay a bit more and have you hard earned dollars stay here in at home to help pay wages to your neighbors?

There is a balance to it. Yes, local manufacturing will make things more expensive. But making more durable goods tends to pay better wages for more people. And let’s be honest here, most people can’t be a doctor or write code. High paying collage degrees are beyond them. Or we can maintain low paying retail jobs for the majority of people.

But the is a balance and it can’t be done over night without causing large amounts of economic pain to many people.

That isn’t ready for common use by most people until there they offer binaries for easy installation.

Remember kiddies-- Spiking the baby is not proper procedure. But a forward pass is fine.

As a medic and fireman, you spend a lot of your holidays celebrating them with your closest coworkers. I don’t see what the big deal is…